Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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What you think you are, you are,until you think otherwise. ~American Proverb
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. ~English Proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. ~James Thurber
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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